Czech memory of the Gulag

Victims of the Soviet Gulag, executions and deportations included among the millions of members of many nations more than 20 thousand Czechs, Slovaks and other Czechoslovak citizens. We search in the archives and among the witnesses and discover long-forgotten stories in order to complete this little-known chapter of Czech history. We also commemorate the victims at various events, to which we try to attract the attention of the Czech public.

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Archives and stories

Thanks to our expeditions, cooperation with Czech and foreign partners (including the Russian Memorial Association) and access to Russian, Ukrainian and other archives, we manage from time to time to find hitherto unknown stories of Czechs persecuted in the Soviet Union. We process and publish these stories as text or video on our websites, or in cooperation with Czech and foreign media. The result is, among the others:

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Returning the names

Every year on October 29, on the eve of Russia's Day of Remembrance of Victims of Political Repression, we remember the names of those who died as a result of Soviet state terror. Among the millions of these victims are also thousands of Czechs or citizens of Czechoslovakia. We regularly read their names at the memorial to the victims of the communist regime in Prague's Újezd.

An overview of all years of the Return of Names event, which we have been organizing in the Czech Republic since 2017, including lists of medallions read, can be found HERE

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Memsearch.org - Database search engine on Soviet repression

At www.memsearch.org, we have launched a search system called "Memory of Repression", which links databases that aggregate information about Soviet repression. This is a joint project of the Memorial association and other memory institutions from several Russian regions (Krasnoyarsk, Moscow, Perm, Ryazan, St. Petersburg), the former Perm-36 museum and our organization Gulag.cz, which ensured the technical implementation of the project.

More about this tool, which allows you to search for information not only about Czechs, but also about all other victims of Soviet repression you can find it HERE

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Last address

"One name, one life, one table." That's the motto of the originally Russian Last Address project, which we helped expand to the Czech environment in June 2017. You can read more about the project HERE.

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Czech places of conscience in a global context

What do the Gulag, places and museums of conscience in the USA, old Karviná, Lety u Písku, "Our Germans" in Ústí nad Labem, the interpretation of local heritage, the war in Ukraine and refugees heading to the Czech Republic have in common? All of this was the subject of debates and workshops that we organized in March 2022 at three locations in the Czech Republic. The lecturer was Linda Norris from the International Coalition of Sites of Conscience, of which Gulag.cz is also a part.

More info HERE

Czech memory of the GulagProject news

We are publishing the unknown story of a Czech woman imprisoned in the Gulag

February 28, 2024

She was given metal by Stalin, then her husband was executed, her son (who later became a Soviet national artist) was taken a...

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December 28, 2023

The biggest mass murder of Czechs in the USSR

September 28, 2023

This year, the Saint Wenceslas Day marks the 85th anniversary of the execution of 80 innocent Czechs in Zhytomyr. The text yo...

Czech places of conscience in the global context

May 25, 2022

A reflection on the workshops ...

Documentary series "The Czechs and the Great Terror"

October 29, 2021

Executions, deportations to Siberia, physical abuse, slave labor in GULAG camps - this was the Soviet reality under Joseph St...

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June 07, 2020

Returning the Names 2019

November 10, 2019

On Tuesday, October 29, 2019, we joined for the third time the event of the Russian Memorial Association "Returning the Names...

Returning the names 2017 - remembrance of the Czechs executed in the USSR

October 01, 2017

On Sunday, October 29, on the eve of the Russian Day of Memory of Victims of Political Repression, we commemorated the names ...

On Tuesday, June 27, we will launch the Czech version of the Last Address project

June 23, 2017

“One name, one life, one table.” This is the motto of the project Last A...

The Last address - Russian project has attracted a lot of interest, we plan to expand to the Czech Republic

October 26, 2015

The Czech presentation of the Russian project The Last Address, which commemorates the victims of Soviet repression, met with...